London: William Heinemann, 1930. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), viii, 72 pages. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, number 64 of 75 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Marcel Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur and author of cookbooks that popularized French cuisine in the English-speaking world. His London restaurant, the Restaurant Français, opened in 1927, and was known at the time as the most expensive in the city. In publisher’s.....
[New York]: Castoria, Centaur Liniment, Dr. Wei De Meyer, [1883]. Duedecimo (15.25 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Various small illustrations throughout. Product cookbook promoting Centaur's Castoria and Dr. Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure, with recipes "adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York". With testimonials, including one from P.T. Barnum. Some light spotting within. In red- and black-illustrated wrappers depicting "The Diver" with a small cord for hanging. Tiny.....
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 604-8 South Washington Square, [circa 1895]. Thick quarto (23 x 16 cm.), [1], 19-592 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Index. A reprinting of the edition issued by Philadelphia's by T.B. Peterson & Bros. in 1882, which was based on the 26th London edition. The original was published in London in 1846 under the title, The Modern Cook. The first American edition was published the same.....
Stafford Springs: The Press Job Print, 1902. Duodecimo (15.5 x 13 cm.), 106 pages. Ads. Cover title: Grace Church Recipes. Advertisements interspersed. First edition. A Connecticut church cookbook with one hundred fifty recipes, most of them attributed. There is an emphasis on meat and fish dishes somewhat unusual for the time; among them: Swedish Baked Fish, Potted Shad, Pressed Chicken, Beefsteak Pie, Stewed Liver, Glazed Sweetbreads. But not to despair.....
Rutland, Vt. The Tuttle Co., 1916. Octavo, 187 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Recorded by his daughter Emily Marie Haddad, with the assistance of Bernice Rachel Tuttle; with an introduction by John Abner Mead. While much of the book is the autobiography, the final thirty-five pages are given over to Syrian recipes, supplied by Mrs. George Haddad. One of the earliest – if not the earliest –appearance of Middle Eastern recipes.....
Paris: Etienne Chiron, Editeur, 1940. Octavo (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 123 pages. Index. Illustrated with a few diagrams in the text. FIRST EDITION. Practical recipes and menus from J. Laribe, military pharmacist and director of military classes. All recipes are portioned for one hundred soldiers. Laribe's culinary theory was appropriately technocratic for the military, and considered the three main factors in cooking to be equipment, manpower, and climate. Some light.....
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....
[Gloucester]: Procter Brothers, Publishers, 1882. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 274, [38] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. ~ FIRST EDITION. An omnibus of information about the American seafood industry in the final decades of the 19th century, covering the fishermen and fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Ann. The book contains lists of vessels operating; explains the value (economic, but also health-wise) of various types of seafood; tell.....
late 1500s. Engraving, (23.5 x 29.5 cm. image dimensions). Signed in lower part of impression, "Bassan. inuet. loa. Sadeler sc." and CU. priuil. S. Caes. M." and ex S. Lvc. xvi. cap." Lacking the legend below the image. One of Sadeler's three "Kitchen" scenes, this one with Lazaraus seen from behind at right with two dogs,, seated and looking at a dinner table with the rich man, a kitchen with.....
New York: Publisher by J.& J. Harper, 1831. Square duodecimo, 222 pages, [2] ads. Illustrated with ten wood engravings of carving in the text. First edition. With a fascinating and angry introduction by the author, with much ire directed at the "barren, inhospitable country" of Scotland. Some light soiling throughout, but textblock tight and pages supple. Pencil scribble to rear blank. In publisher's pale green paper covered boards, with one.....